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Jun 02, 2020, 06:29 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
Posts: 3,592
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Originally Posted by cogladaid
There’s a couple different ways to do it but it all is based off of left and right and calming your brain. The way we do it is with some little buzzy devices one in each hand and the buzzes alternate. It’s supposed to help calm you and process stuff like trauma and anxiety.
Since COVID we’ve had to do video calling so we do alternating arm tapping.
I’m not quite sure how to describe it.
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Originally Posted by cogladaid
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Thank you.
The link was interesting.
The following quoted text made a lot of sense. I can kind of see how this would be effective. I have GAD and have noticed that moving my eyes seems to distract me when I feel intense anxiety.
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Others posit that the bilateral stimulation causes a degradation of working memory. Horizontal eye movements have been shown to tend to tax working memory.[53] In support of the working memory account, analogue studies have found that other taxing tasks during recall also reduce vividness and/or emotionality of negative memories.[54] The proposal is that the degradation in working memory causes a distancing effect, enabling the client to 'stand back' from the trauma. This enables the client to re-evaluate the trauma and their understanding of it, because they can re-experience it whilst not feeling overwhelmed by it.[42]
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Source: Wikipedia. Link above.
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